Developing effective approaches to ancestral research in Eastern Slovakia
Ahoj (Hello)! These pages provide strategy assistance to English-speaking researchers of Eastern Slovakia immigrants. This collection also provides a contemporary and historical perspective of the region through essays, documents and photographs.
Geographic focus is on Eastern Slovakia (Slovak Republic) / formerly Czechoslovakia / formerly Upper Hungary. Primary research areas include the peoples and lands in the Carpathian mountains and immediate borderlands of Southern Poland (Galicia) and Western Ukraine (Carpatho-Rus). As Slovakia was a component of pre-1918 Hungary, much information about "old Hungary" is contained herein and will be useful for any pre-1918 Hungary research.
If you are new to genealogy research I recommend you start with Welcome andStrategy.
Tip From Peter
Nagy: According the present regulations, the registrars have to
close the registry volumes after the last record is more than 100 years
old. The repository for these civil records are the branch offices of
the State Archives (pobočky štátnych archívov).
1869 Census Tip
From Peter Nagy: The 1869 census is a big issue, according to my
knowledge, the Budapest National Archives have some areas which are not
kept by Slovak archives. In opposite, the census for the former Komarom
county is kept by the State Archives in Ivanka pri Nitre, even for the
villages in present Hungary.
